ONE BRITON-FIVE GERMANS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7569, 23 May 1914, Page 4

ONE BRITON-FIVE GERMANS.

A STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT THE STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OE THE TWO NATIONS. (By SHAW DESMOND in Cassela* Saturday Journal.) THE challongo to British sway and British ,-iciency comes from. Germany. There can be no doubt about that. The standard of national efficiency reached by rr neighbours across the North Sea is of vital import to England. Wheu, therefore, we have the recent assertion of so well known a man as Professor Henry Armstrong that it takes five Gormans to do the work of one Englishman, if we are wise, we will ask oursel?«8 the question—“ls it true?” If it bo L.'e, then, any contest between tho Fatherland and England, whether on the battlefields or on the